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| Name | | Appetite |
| Price, USD | | 399.00 |
| Status | | For sale, check |
| Size, cm
| | 45.7 x 61.0 cm /switch |
| Artist | | Christina Fez-Barringten |
| Year made | | 1968-01-01 |
| Edition | | Limited |
| Style | |
Surrealism |
| Theme | |
Fantasy |
| Media | |
Other media |
| Description | |
| Christinas Pop art collages are a part of visual artistic movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain. It paralleled in the late 1950s in the United States. The 50s was the time when Christina had to flee from east to west Germany, leaving her home city of Leipzig. A city once known for its commerce, music and literature. Leipzig and its surrounding area. Is the home of Gutenberg, Luther, Bach, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Handel, Klinger, Goethes Faust Auerbachs Keller ,only to mention a few. Its neighboring small town is Dessau, the seat of the Bauhaus. Christina grew up in an atmosphere of great music and art. She draws upon that culture and sensitivities of grace and tenacity of that time which is little found in todays politically correct generation. Pop- Art is one of the major art movements of the Twentieth Century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising and comic books. Pop- Art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them. She was the first artist to use Plexiglas (acrylic) . Her sculptures are amazing examples of three dimensional abstract expressionism and movement in the transparency of space. She studied sculpture under Peter Augustino at Columbia University While Pop art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, Christinas work challenged this depressing idea with her passion for harmony, grace and balance. She believed the two can work together and that deconstructivism; DaDa and Surrealism could be made popular into the jargon of the reality of the world of fashion and cosmopolitan urbanism. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to do so. However, much of pop art is considered very academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult for some to comprehend. Christinas pop art is very easy to comprehend. Pop art and Minimalism are considered to be the last Modern art movements and thus the precursors to Contemporary art or Postmodern art.Her collages are a response to Abstract Expressionism and marked a return to representational art she uses images from mass culture and ordinary commerce as a relatively new development. In fact her work incorporates the shapes and forms of her abstract expressionist foundation where each piece is a whole shape consisting of abstract forms arrayed in a kaleidoscope of shapes and forms in tension and counter tension dynamics and repose. While Christina loathes any social preoccupation with psychoanalysis, her work is pure imagination drawn from her own pure psychic automatism, by which she proposes to express the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.Her surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.Christinas mass image art combines eclectic mysticism, current high end fashion metaphors and values of her real and exaggerated impression of the society values around her. With each completed piece we see the combined segments of what man has made out of modern reality. Each piece reifies the potential of the combination of the segments to its aesthetic conclusion. As she breaks and reassembles fragments of Plexiglas to form her sculptures so she cut apart the fashion magazines of the early sixties and reassembled them to compose there own personality. In style, many of her collages are absolutely baroque and busting with dynamic life and exuberance. Her work is in the genre of other pop artist such as English pop artist Sir Peter Thomas Blake and Richard Hamilton; as well as Norwegian artist, Hariton Pushwagner. The tactility and appeal of each of her pieces is irresistible as the origins of each segment. She has made of each much more than they were in their original form and, have immortalized what was once discarded and swept away with time. Like all the pop artist of her time, Andy Warhol, Rauschenberg , Liechtenstein , she delights in using and reusing the obvious in to the new. This fact remains also true in her acrylic paintings. She is a true maker of metaphors, making the strange familiar and communicating one thing in terms of another. Formally trained also as a fashion illustrator at the New York Art Students League she uses the figures, costumes and textures to recreate styles and fashion looks of the dream world. Each image is bizarre and somewhat extraterrestrial with the art of a Spielberg or Muppet each becomes both the reality of our world and some other. While the techniques of collage were first used at the time of the invention of paper in China around 200 BC. The use of collage, however, remained very limited until the 10th century in Japan, when calligraphers began to apply glued paper, using texts on surfaces, when writing their poems. In the 19th century, collage methods also were used among hobbyists for memorabilia (i.e. applied to photo albums) and books (i.e. Hans Christian Andersen, Carl Spitzweg).Christinas home is filled with photo albums and filled with family photo collages. It is natural way to express her ideas and relationships of people, places and events. The term collage derives from the French "colle" meaning "glue".This term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art. Christinas work speaks across centuries, cultures and genres. To own her work is to posses a still life of importance and value. |
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